Linguistics and the Linguistics Olympiad Dick Hudson, November 2015, UCS 1. What is linguistics? 2. What is the UK Linguistics Olympiad? 3. Phonetics: IPA problem (meet the IPA) 4. Historical linguistics: Comparative Romance 5. Phonology: Turkish 6. Morphology: Polish 7. Syntax: Old English 8. Semantics: Yolmo Resources This page: http://www.dickhudson.com/talks UK Linguistics Olympiad: http://www.uklo.org UKLO examples: http://www.uklo.org/example-questions o very easy examples: http://www.uklo.org/breakthrough-workout List of BA Linguistics courses: http://www.lagb.org.uk/page-1828991 Stuff about linguistics: http://www.uklo.org/for- competitors 1